Need help monitoring IC2 reactor with ComputerCraft

[Jamie Rice]

I have an IC2 reactor schematic ready, but it needs to be shut down every ten minutes for a short interval in order to cool down. I know this can be done through redstone with ComputerCraft, but I'm not exactly sure how. I know basic programming in JS, but lua is throwing me for loops. Any advice?

 

[rhn]

I have an IC2 reactor schematic ready, but it needs to be shut down every ten minutes for a short interval in order to cool down. I know this can be done through redstone with ComputerCraft, but I'm not exactly sure how. I know basic programming in JS, but lua is throwing me for loops. Any advice?

I would suggest using Nuclear Control to determine when the reactor gets too hot and needs to cool down. Then you could just set up something as simple as:

while true do
   if redstone.getInput("left") == true then    --This is the input from the Remote Thermal Monitor, set to output redstone signal once reactor gets too hot.
      redstone.setOutput("right", false)   --output to reactor turned off
      sleep(60) --This is the number of seconds the reactor needs to cool down
   else
      redstone.setOutput("right", true)   --output to reactor turned on
   end

   sleep(1) --Just to prevent the code from using too many resources.

end